Consider the following table, which gives a security analyst's expected return on two stocks and the market index in two scenarios: Aggressive Defensive Scenario Probability Market Return 1 0.5 2 0.5 7% 20 Stock 3.2% Stock 5.0% 31 14 Required: a. What are the betas of the two stocks? (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Beta A Beta D 2.14 0.69 b. What is the expected rate of return on each stock? (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Rate of return on A Rate of return on D 17.10 % 9.50 %

Consider the expected return for two stocks in two different market conditions: Aggressive Stock Market Return. 9% 18% Risk Free Rate 4% 7% 32% Defensive Stock 5% 16% 4 a. What are the betas of the two stocks? b. What is the expected rate of return on each stock if the market return is equally likely to be 9% or 18%? c. What are the alphas of each?

Consider the following two scenarios for the economy and the expected returns in each scenario for the market portfolio, an aggressive stock A, and a defensive stock D. Scenario Bust Boom Market -7% 19 Rate of Return Aggressive Stock A -10% 25 Defensive Stock D -5% 15 Required: a. Find the beta of each stock. b. If each scenario is equally likely, find the expected rate of return on the market portfolio and on each stock. c. If the T-bill rate is 4%, what does the CAPM say about the fair expected rate of return on the two stocks? d. Which stock seems to be a better buy on the basis of your answers to (a) through (c)? > Answer is complete but not entirely correct. Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Required A Required B Required C Required D Find the beta of each stock. Note: Round your answers to 2 decimal places. Beta Stock A Stock D 3.31 x 1.54

Consider the following table, which gives a security analyst's expected return on two stacks and the market i Aggressive Defensive Scenario Probability Market Return Stack Stock 1 0.5 0.5 2.6% 4.4% 16 27 Required: a. What are the belas of the two storks? (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Beta A Beta D b. What is the expected rate of return on each stack? (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Rate of return on A Rata of return on D % %

Consider the following table, which gives a security analyst's expected return on two stocks in two particular scenarios for the rate of return on the market: Market Return 6% 22 Aggressive Stock -3% 35 Defensive Stock 4% 12 Required: a. What are the betas of the two stocks? b. What is the expected rate of return on each stock if the two scenarios for the market return are equally likely? e. What hurdle rate should be used by the management of the aggressive firm for a project with the risk characteristics of the defensive firm's stock if market return is equally likely to be 6% or 22% ? Also, assume a T-Bill rate of 4%.

b. Consider the following information about three stocks: Probability of State of i. ii. iii. iv. State of Economy V. Boom Recession Economy 0.40 0.60 From the information given, you are required to answer the following questions. Compute the Standard Deviation for each stock. Compute the Coefficient Variation for each stock. Based on your computation in part (i) and (ii), which stock is riskier? Explain your answer. Rate of Return if State Occurs Stock Hang Stock Hang Jebat 7% 13% Tuah 28% (5%) Stock Hang Kasturi 15% 3% Assume that you have RM14,000 invested in Stock Hang Jebat whose beta is 1.5, RM19,000 invested in Stock Hang Kasturi whose beta is 2.5 and RM17,000 invested in Stock Hang Tuah whose beta is 1.6. Determine what is the beta of this portfolio. Based on your answer in part (iv), compute the required rate of return for this portfolio, given that the market rate of return is 13% and risk-free rate is 5%.

Suppose that many stocks are traded in the market and that it is possible to borrow at the risk-free rate, rƒ. The characteristics of two of the stocks are as follows:   Stock Expected Return Standard Deviation A 8% 55% B 4% 45% Correlation = −1       Required: a. Calculate the expected rate of return on this risk-free portfolio? (Hint: Can a particular stock portfolio be formed to create a “synthetic” risk-free asset?) (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)   b. Could the equilibrium rƒ be greater than rate of return?

onsider the following table, which gives a security analyst’s expected return on two stocks and the market index in two scenarios:  Scenario Probability Market Return Aggressive Stock Defensive Stock 1 0.5 7% 2.2% 5.0% 2 0.5 15 25 12   Required: a. What are the betas of the two stocks? (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)   b. What is the expected rate of return on each stock? (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

Stock Y has a beta of 0.9 and an expected return of 9.46 percent. Stock Z has a beta of 2.1 and an expected return of 15.59 percent. What would the risk-free rate (in percent) have to be for the two stocks to be correctly priced relative to each other? Answer to two decimals.

We know that two stocks A and B are correctly priced by the CAPM model. For A, the expected return is 12%, and the beta is 1.5; for B, the expected return is 6%, and the beta is 0.5. Based on this information, what is the risk free rate and expected market return? Select one: A. 3%; 9% B. 3%; 6% C. 2%; 8% D. 4%; 10%